September 30:

With the automobile parking problem here grown so serious that merchants are seriously handicapped by the inability of many shoppers to get to their stores, the business men took the matters into their own hands today and devised an "honor system" of parking.

Within the next few days signs will appear along Asbury Park's main street, Cookman Avenue, appealing to the public to refrain from parking cars any longer than necessary. The merchants hope that this system will work, though the ordinance forbidding parking more than 20 minutes on Cookman Avenue has failed to keep the street clear.

According to business men here, cars have been left standing as long as thirty hours, and Cookman Avenue has been so congested that shoppers on rainy days this Summer have hade to leave their cars several blocks from the business street and walk to the stores.

The honor plan was endorsed today by the employees of the Seacoast Trust Company, many of whom own cars. They voluntarily agreed to park their cars hereafter on other streets.

Edward Marsh, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, said that if any car owners failed to enter into the spirit of the new scheme, the numbers of their cars would be taken. The Chamber of Commerce would first telephone to the owners, then write to them diplomatically, he said, and if they paid no heed, and still persisted in parking overtime, would prosecute them.